Date of Award
2025-12-01
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Education
Advisor(s)
Carolina Teran Lopez
Abstract
This narrative literature review examines the educational experiences of transfronterizx college students along the U.S.– México border, a population largely absent from higher education scholarship. Drawing on Borderlands Theory, Anzaldúa’s frameworks, and critical perspectives on neoliberalism and militarization, this thesis highlights the border as a site of both constraint and possibility. Structural violence, surveillance, and militarization intersect with linguistic, racial, and class hierarchies to shape students’ mobility, identities, and sense of belonging. At the same time, students mobilize hybrid identities, cultural wealth, and transborder networks to assert agency, cultivate belonging, and resist deficit narratives. It also identifies persistent gaps, particularly regarding LGBTQ+, gender-dissident, and disabled students, and underscores the need for higher education policies and pedagogies that respond to the embodied, political, and cultural realities of transfronterizx students.
Language
en
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Copyright Date
2025-12
File Size
52 p.
File Format
application/pdf
Rights Holder
Aylin Garcia
Recommended Citation
Garcia, Aylin, "Borderlines Of Becoming: Transfronterizx College Students Navigating Surveillance, Hybridity And Belonging Along The US-México Border" (2025). Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 4545.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/4545
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